blackness of despair
- noun
- Literature
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negrura de la desesperación
- As the news sank in, a blackness of despair settled over her.
Examples
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The blackness of despair was palpable in the room.
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He felt the blackness of despair enveloping him.
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He wrote poetry about the blackness of despair he felt after losing his job.
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Many people experience the blackness of despair during difficult times in their lives.
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As the news sank in, a blackness of despair settled over her.
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He wrote poetry about the blackness of despair he felt after losing his job.
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Many people experience the blackness of despair during difficult times in their lives.
Synonyms
210
3.5
A complete loss of hope
46
3.2
A feeling of sadness and low spirits
28
4.1
A feeling that nothing will get better
20
4.9
A deep, long-lasting feeling of sadness
8
8.0
A sad heavy feeling that hangs over a place
3
6.3
A cold, empty feeling that makes a place or situation seem sad
2
9.0
A very deep feeling of sadness with no hope
1
3.4
A feeling of sadness and little hope felt by people or in a place
1
8.4
A gloomy, unfriendly mood that makes a person quiet and hard to approach
Extreme misery and suffering that makes life very hard
A time when someone feels sad and without energy
A quiet feeling of sadness and low spirits
Antonyms
How Hopeless
- Literature
210
3.5
3
3.6
229
1.0
223
1.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
blackness + of + despair
The phrase composes 'blackness' (darkness) with 'despair' (hopelessness) in a straightforward metaphorical way, so the meaning 'a darkness-like feeling of hopelessness' is directly inferable from the parts. This follows common cross-linguistic mappings (darkness = negative emotion) and a regular English noun-of-noun composition, so a learner who knows the constituents can readily understand it.
Etymology
Blackness of despair paints the picture of a heavy, dark cloud closing in. Blackness shows deep darkness and despair shows deep sadness, so it means 'feeling hopeless'.